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President Muhammadu Buhari delivers 2016 budget at the National Assembly in Abuja, Nigeria December 22, 2015. REUTERS/Stringer
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Nigerian soldiers hold up a Boko Haram flag that they had seized in the recently retaken town of Damasak, Nigeria, March 18, 2015. Chadian and Nigerien soldiers took the town from Boko Haram militants earlier this week. The Nigerian army said on Tuesday it had repelled Boko Haram from all but three local government districts in the northeast, claiming victory for its offensive against the Islamist insurgents less than two weeks before a presidential election. Picture taken March 18. REUTERS/Emmanuel Braun – RTR4TZO2
ISIS Names New Leader of Nigeria’s Boko Haram
ISIS named a new leader of Boko Haram, the Nigerian ultra-hardline militant group which last year pledged allegiance to it. Abu Musab al-Barnawi was named ISIS’ governor for West Africa in a two-page interview in its weekly magazine, al-Naba, which was...Caption:
Nigeria has all but finished a flourishing local film industry that employed thousands of people, but was under scrutiny by clerics and officials. AFP PHOTO / AFP PHOTO / AMINU ABUBAKAR
Extremists Halt ‘Film Village’ Project North of Nigeria
Kano (Nigeria)-After a wide campaign and so much pressure put by extremists, Nigeria has cancelled a plan to build a $10 million “Film Village” outside the mainly Muslim northern city of Kano. The project, to be built on a 20-hectare expanse near Kano, planned for a...Caption:
Nigerian special forces prepare to fight Boko Haram in Diffa on March 26, 2015. Reuters
U.S. General: Boko Haram Fracturing over ISIS Ties
A senior U.S. general has said that Nigerian militants Boko Haram have fractured internally, with a big group splitting away from shadowy leader Abubakar Shekau over his failure to adhere to guidance from the Iraq- and Syria-based ISIS. Marine Lieutenant General...Caption: